Great fortunes arose amidst tremendous poverty, and what many experienced as the liberation of a new industrial economy looked to others to be a constriction of deeply-held beliefs about the labor, independence, and freedom in a nation built upon agrarian and craft ideals. Trace the increasing organization of institutions in these years, paying attention to such potential examples as the federal government’s experiments during Reconstruction, the business innovations of the Gilded Age, the farmers’ revolt in Populism, Progressivism’s new vision of governance, and the struggle over constitutional rights in the period of Jim Crow and women’s suffrage. What solutions did reformers suggest to ameliorate the changes wrought by industrialization, and how successful were they in implementing their reforms? Potential IDs to use in the essay.John Rockefeller Fourteen PointsFreedmen’s Bureau Andrew Johnson14th Amendment Booker T. WashingtonAmerican Federation of Labor Eugene Debs The JungleThe Souls of Black Folk New NationalismLusitania Emilio AguinaldoElizabeth Johnson Williams Lucy BurnsOmaha Platform Chinese Exclusion ActWilliam Jennings Bryan Harlan’s DissentFarmers’ AllianceIda B. Wells separate spheres19th Amendment Minor v. HappersettProgressivism William Howard TaftQuanah Parker sharecropping double consciousness Radical ReconstructionU.S. v. Wong Kim Ark William McKinley 15th Amendment Spanish-American War
